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ArkAngel

2011-12-26 01:56:34 PM

This will not end well

Because People in power are Stupid

2011-12-26 02:00:31 PM

FTA: altered images of politicians

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flucto

2011-12-26 02:00:37 PM

Too late for Derp of the Year?

some.old.lady.

2011-12-26 02:05:36 PM

Man, that's just, ghaaahh-level idiocy.

/waaayy too much to even *begin* the arguments here.

make me some tea

2011-12-26 02:07:46 PM

Oh, FFS.

gopher321

2011-12-26 02:15:17 PM

Yes, because enforced morality laws/enforcement ALWAYS turn out well.*

*- please see Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc.

pudding7

2011-12-26 03:06:35 PM

They should just close all their offices in India.

"India? No, we don't do any business there. Hmm, you say our sites are still accessible inside the country? Well, we'll look into it. Get right on it. I guess in the meantime you can put in a Great Firewall like in China. Let us know how that goes for you."

Ed Finnerty

2011-12-26 03:10:47 PM

Something about this smells funny.
^{/Like B.O.}

gopher321

2011-12-26 03:28:52 PM

gopher321: Yes, because enforced morality laws/enforcement ALWAYS turn out well.*
.

yay drunk posting!

deeproy

2011-12-26 03:30:12 PM

They will do the needful.

BarbadoSlim

2011-12-26 03:34:35 PM

This is simple, all these companies should LEAVE India and not look back. F*ck 'em.

StokeyBob

2011-12-26 03:42:37 PM

gopher321: gopher321: Yes, because enforced morality laws/enforcement ALWAYS turn out well.*
.

yay drunk posting!

Your having quite a party there. Glad I had a chance to join you.

plc5_250

2011-12-26 03:42:42 PM

FTA:

Media reports say India is pressing major Internet firms to filter out what the government considers unacceptable material, including religiously sensitive images and altered images of politicians.

I smell an epic Photoshop contest in the making...

Get Lost

2011-12-26 03:45:17 PM

gopher321: Yes, because enforced morality laws/enforcement ALWAYS turn out well.*

*- please see Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc.

Also 'prohibition'(histories version and todays version).

FightDirector

2011-12-26 03:53:53 PM

Read the headline as "Indiana courts..." and was completely unsurprised.

Not a good sign.

Refudiated Strategerist

2011-12-26 04:30:04 PM

Patiently awaiting a Bollywood version of The Internet is for Porn.

MouserMusing

2011-12-26 04:38:05 PM

Read another article on it, think it was computer world.

The gist was that the technology minister said it wasn't about pre-filtering so much but that the law states offensive content when reported had to be removed or filtered in 36 hours and that providers were failing to do so.

Macular Degenerate

2011-12-26 04:39:57 PM

India is a massive market, 2nd largest market for Facebook and the 3rd largest market for the Internet overall, by some estimates. My bet is that companies like Facebook and Google care more about leaving cash on the table than free speech, like Google did in China.

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Yukon Callmeal

2011-12-26 05:03:25 PM

FightDirector: Read the headline as "Indiana courts..." and was completely unsurprised.

Not a good sign.

But it won't cause you to rethink the way you have mentally categorized things, I am sure.

Mayhem of the Black Underclass

2011-12-26 05:24:21 PM

Uh, is that headline written incorrectly? Like it should be Indian Courts order...
because India in the headline should be an adjective,

The way it's written makes courts a verb,

therefore I took like two minutes to get through this sentence because courts and order can both be verbs and nouns.

edmo

2011-12-26 05:34:22 PM

This reminds of those who complain about what comes across on TV. If only the technology existed to personally control what we see and hear.

Maybe we should pass laws making it illegal for India's justice system to carry out sentences that offend us. We could go beyond local stupidity and ban Sharia law world wide. Think how many problems that would solve.

/Why do the same people make all the big decisions?

mikecc

2011-12-26 05:57:12 PM

Mayhem of the Black Underclass: Uh, is that headline written incorrectly? Like it should be Indian Courts order...
because India in the headline should be an adjective,

The way it's written makes courts a verb,

therefore I took like two minutes to get through this sentence because courts and order can both be verbs and nouns.

How is it a verb?

DigitalCoffee

2011-12-26 06:21:53 PM

You mean that the US doesn't have the market cornered on politicians that don't know how the intertubes work?

OH....

The petition against the sites in the latest case had been filed by Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi, founder of fatwaonline.com, media reports say.

Lookie that, another wannabe muzzie dictator telling everyone else what to do and think. What is the sound of one hand slapping a douche bag upside the head. Please to grow up and join the 21st century. Thank you, come again.

BizarreMan

2011-12-26 07:56:56 PM

I haven't looked at it, but does fatwaonline have anti-religious content that should be blocked?

Mayhem of the Black Underclass

2011-12-26 08:08:44 PM

mikecc: Mayhem of the Black Underclass: Uh, is that headline written incorrectly? Like it should be Indian Courts order...
because India in the headline should be an adjective,

The way it's written makes courts a verb,

therefore I took like two minutes to get through this sentence because courts and order can both be verbs and nouns.

How is it a verb?

Court = woo, seek the favor of.

rev. dave

2011-12-26 09:36:18 PM

This may result in something ugly. Too many experts there better than the government. This is a policy that will cause chaos.

JK47

2011-12-26 11:50:45 PM

Macular Degenerate: India is a massive market, 2nd largest market for Facebook and the 3rd largest market for the Internet overall, by some estimates. My bet is that companies like Facebook and Google care more about leaving cash on the table than free speech, like Google did in China.

Compliance costs associated with what the Indian court is requesting are prohibitive. In fact, those costs would be multiplied by the very factors you cite. Reading comprehension is key.

devlin carnate

2011-12-27 12:57:44 AM

JK47: Macular Degenerate: India is a massive market, 2nd largest market for Facebook and the 3rd largest market for the Internet overall, by some estimates. My bet is that companies like Facebook and Google care more about leaving cash on the table than free speech, like Google did in China.

Compliance costs associated with what the Indian court is requesting are prohibitive. In fact, those costs would be multiplied by the very factors you cite. Reading comprehension is key.

in addition, market size is only important if customers are generating revenue for Google and Facebook by spending money on the advertisements posted on those websites. with per capita income in India so low i bet that, despite the number of users, the company's revenues are not commensurate with the costs quoted above.

atcomm1

2011-12-27 02:44:07 AM

It would be very funny if Google, Facebook, and Yahoo could set up a www.G/FB/Y.india domains and blocked the .coms from India's IP's. I have a feeling that India's leaders would suddenly have a problem with G/FB/Y's compliance with that court order.
Given the fact that your Tech Support Specialist from India is only reading a script, trading google.com for google.india really won't matter.

Barakku

2011-12-27 08:36:30 AM

Macular Degenerate: India is a massive market, 2nd largest market for Facebook and the 3rd largest market for the Internet overall, by some estimates. My bet is that companies like Facebook and Google care more about leaving cash on the table than free speech, like Google did in China.

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Note the 2006 date. Google has since uncensored their content in China, and were soon blocked by China.

cefm

2011-12-27 10:11:38 AM

For a country whose tech-skills economy is thriving and lives and breathes on the internet, this seems like an extremely foolish move.

Of course, companies like Facebook could always just slip it into their Terms of Service update and call it a day. Won't change any behavior, but if they get specific complaints they can just call it a TOS violation and remove the content or ban the user.

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